Fort Erie Museums (Railroad, Historical, Battlefield and Mewinzha Gallery) Ridgeway, Ontario

In the middle of the night, on 1 June 1866, nearly 1,000 Fenians crossed the Niagara River from Buffalo, New York. The vanguard, Colonel Owen Starr’s Seventeenth Regiment from Louisville, […]

Glaoch ón Tríú Reich (‘A call from the Third Reich’)

The noted linguist, Celtic studies expert and Nazi propagandist Dr Hans Hartmann has been enjoying something of a revival recently. First he had a starring role, albeit dramatised, in Desmond […]

Bantry Library, Co. Cork

Set in the small market town of Bantry, surrounded by one of the spate rivers that drain from the Knocknaveagh range to the south, is one of Ireland’s most unusual […]

Les Irlandais et la France: trois siècles de relations militaires

‘The Wild Geese’ is the romantic term traditionally applied to the men who left Ireland to join the armies of European countries. Beginning in the sixteenth century, large numbers of […]

Irish warrants— hidden treasures from the East (Riding)

It is a tragic irony that in Ireland’s fight for independence and a new beginning in 1922 we also lost the vast majority of our historical records dating back to […]